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Steele, Spectator, No. 88. We had an immense party, the most numerous ever Greville, Memoirs, Aug. 30, 1819. known there. 2. A great many; not a few; forming a great number: as, numerous objects attract the at tention; attacked by numerous enemies. Numerous laws of transition, connection, preparation, are different for a writer in verse and a writer in prose. De Quincey, Hero dot us. These [savages] who reside where water abounds, with the same industry kill the hippopotami, or river-horses, which are exceedingly numerous in the pools of the stagnant rivers. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 547. 3t. Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; melodious; musical. And the Greeke and Latine Poesie was by verse numer ous and metric all, running vpon pleasant feete, sometimes swift, sometimes slow. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 7. IMG:content-1503.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1504.jpg:[blocks in formation] medals, with es pecial reference to their history, artistic qual numerously (nu'me-rus-li), adv . 1. In or with ity, description, great numbers: as, a meeting numerously attended.-21. Harmoniously; musically. See numerous , 3. IMG:content-1505.png:[blocks in formation]